To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.

You are immortal till the very moment you die. Discover it, and stand untouchable.

A smile is the light of personality.

No work for God's grace.

Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.